Undergraduate Research Day Projects: Recent submissions

"Bicycle Share at UH" focuses on creating and testing innovative integrated systems, and processes that will enable access to transmit and improve transit mobility on a unique urban campus. Houston is the 4th largest city ...

In the workplace, history has had a peculiar instance of repeating itself, reflecting shifting ideologies of how offices should be organized. This research investigation explores the impact of workspaces on productivity ...

Our goal is to identify novel therapeutic targets of Lupus and test their potential. Polo-Like Kinase 1 (PLK1) is one of the molecules that we have identified and shown to be hyper-activated in immune cells of lupus mice, ...

With its strong commitment in supporting students to complete a high quality education within four years, this research wishes to extend this commitment and shed light on improving students’ performances in class. In doing ...

Self-Conscience/Physical Memory is an immersive, kinetic art installation driven by real-time, user-input brain data and archival brain recordings from scalp electroencephalography (EEG) that can also serve as an experimental ...

The car was a vital part of American society and identity. Traditionally, driving one signified one’s right of passage and allowed the user freedom and status. Cities have evolved around automobiles with freeways and parking ...

Flowing boiling in microchannels has attacked significant attention as a potential technology for high heat flux dissipation. Its main advantage is the possibility of achieving high heat transfer coefficients using low ...

Active structures allow for real time control of a structure’s shape, stiffness, and damping. Accurately characterizing the mechanical response of smart materials enhances their implementation into active structures. ...

Motor proteins, like kinesins, dyneins, and myosins, are enzymes that convert chemical energy into motion to transport large cellular components that cannot diffuse by themselves. Both kinesins and dyneins provide scaffolding ...

Transposable Elements (TEs) are both important drivers of genome evolution and genetic parasites with potentially dramatic consequences for host fitness, including insertional inactivation of functional sequences and genomic ...

According to the CDC, between the years 2004-2006 congenital eye defects were present in 1 of every 5,349 births. Our research proposes to uncover the underlying regulation of eye development through identifying proteins ...

So far, we have determined and adjusted experiment design and written the code for the experiment. We are currently collecting data from test subjects and working on creating related experiments for the future. The experiment ...

We have designed testbed experiments for Magnetic Induction based communications and tomography. The experiments will show whether or not using Magnetic Induction as a means of security from underground tunnels used for ...

Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in mammalian brain; however their function in the response to brain injury are poorly understood. Reactive astrocytes mediate the response to neural injury in two waves; initially ...